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The Coincidences

by Ivan Polidoro

A failed boxer, a retired factory worker, a rower who betrays his best friend, an adolescent who ecomes a priest to save his father, a boy who is too fat and dreams of riding his bicycle but all he does is eat cakes, a rugby player who challenges the boss of his neighbourhood. These are some of the rotagonists of the twenty seven stories which make up the novel and show fifty years of Italian life in Naples, Milan and in the province around Turin. Small but significant cases recorded live, a precarious balance, where in one moment, with one touch, reality is shattered.